Wreck on I-95 results in 13-hour traffic diversion

A crash closed the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 Saturday night for about 13 hours after a vehicle wrecked into an overturned box truck and created a diesel leak.

The crash happened shortly before 8:30 p.m. near mile marker 302, according to the Florida Highway Patrol release. The report said that Jesus Pineda-Maldonado, 28, of Palm Coast, was airlifted to Shands Jacksonville with critical injuries as a result of a collision with the overturned truck.

All southbound traffic was diverted to State Road 206 while the lanes were closed. They were reopened on Sunday morning, said FHP spokesman Justin Asbury.

Asbury said the box truck had been on a flatbed trailer pulled by a 2007 Ford F-250 pickup driven by Edwin Euguen Goodbread, 58, of Port St. Lucie.

According to the report, Goodbread was driving south on the interstate when the trailer became detached from his vehicle and overturned onto the inside lane. Pineda-Maldonado was also driving south in a 2002 Nissan Altima and ran into the overturned truck.

Neither Goodbread nor his passenger, Youell Thomas Housch, 61, of Loxhatchee, were injured. The report said at least two other secondary crashes occurred as a result of the overturned trailer and truck obstructing the roadway. No details were available about those crashes, but no other injuries were reported by FHP.

Updated information on Pineda-Maldonado’s condition was not available Sunday evening.